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Title: The Book of Brave Old Ballads
Author: Unknown
Illustrator: John Gilbert
Release Date: May 15, 2008 [EBook #25480]
Language: English
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THE BOOK
OF
BRAVE OLD BALLADS.
Illustrated with Sixteen Coloured Engravings,
FROM DRAWINGS BY JOHN GILBERT.
"_I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet._"--SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
LONDON: WARD, LOCK, AND TYLER, WARWICK HOUSE, PATERNOSTER ROW.
LONDON: PRINTED BY J. OGDEN AND CO., 172, ST. JOHN STREET, E.C.
[Illustration: THE FROLICSOME DUKE, OR THE TINKER'S GOOD FORTUNE.]
CONTENTS.
PAGE
ROBIN HOOD AND GUY OF GISBORNE 1
THE CHILDE OF ELLE 17
ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH, AND WILLIAM OF CLOUDESLY--
Part the First